Of all the odd notions to emerge from debates over consciousness, the oddest is that it doesn’t exist, at least not in the way we think it does. It is an illusion, like “Santa Claus” or “American ...

It suggests your subjective experience might come from both your physical brain and the mysterious quantum activity within it.

Large Language Models have emerged as both curious and transformative forces in the science of artificial intelligence, prompting a reevaluation of fundamental questions concerning the nature of ...

A new study from TU Wien shows that LLMs do not idle into nonsense when left without tasks. Instead, they fall into clear ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andréa Morris reports on emergent intelligence in diverse systems. “This retroactive idea. It has to be that,” says Nobel ...

A declaration signed by dozens of scientists says there is ‘a realistic possibility’ for elements of consciousness in reptiles, insects and molluscs. Armed with such research, a coalition of ...

Gowtham Chilakapati is a Director at Humana. He is an expert in enterprise data and AI systems with a focus on real-time analytics. As a technologist specializing in retrieval-augmented generation ...

One of the most important paradoxes in physics is Schrödinger's Cat. At the microscopic level, light and particles behave according to quantum mechanics. This allows them to be in two places at once ...